Title :
Suboptimal Spatial Diversity Scheme for 60 GHz Millimeter-Wave WLAN
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
This letter revisits the equal-gain (EG) spatial diversity technique, which was proposed to combat the human-induced shadowing for 60 GHz wireless local area network, under a more practical frequency-selective multi-input multi-output channel. Subsequently, a suboptimal spatial diversity scheme called maximal selection (MS) is proposed by tracing the shadowing process, owing to a considerably high data rate. Comparisons show that MS outperforms EG in terms of link margin and saves computation complexity.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; diversity reception; millimetre wave propagation; radio links; wireless LAN; wireless channels; EG; computation complexity; equal gain; frequency 60 GHz; frequency selective multiple input multiple output channel; human induced shadowing process; link margin; maximal selection scheme; millimeter wave WLAN; suboptimal spatial diversity scheme; wireless local area network; Bit error rate; Gain; Receiving antennas; Shadow mapping; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas; Wireless LAN; 60 GHz; IEEE 802.11ad; human-induced shadowing; millimeter wave; spatial diversity;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2013.071813.131181